How to Use be done with in a Sentence
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The easy thing for my client would have been to write a check and be done with it.
— Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023 -
But where should this waste go, and what should be done with it?
— Becky Ferreira, WIRED, 25 June 2024 -
Clamshell Sets and Reps The clamshell can be done with your bodyweight.
— Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 14 Mar. 2023 -
Brown asked for his thoughts on what should be done with the prisons.
— David Begnaud, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2023 -
We may be done with Trump by the time that election rolls around.
— Damon Wise, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024 -
For stage 3a, surgery may be done with the intent of a cancer cure.
— Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 22 Apr. 2023 -
Maybe it can only be done with a word that’s just as hard to pin down.
— Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023 -
What goes on in the mind can be as vital to success as what can be done with the body.
— Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023 -
The best part is that it can all be done with the click of a button—no finicky dials or levers.
— Jenna Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2023 -
Starbucks may not be done with its pup cups, but it is done with the metaverse.
— Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024 -
All this can be done with a single press of an Action Key.
— Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024 -
This can be done with a .edu email address or a student ID card.
— Erika Kullberg, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024 -
She is scheduled to be done with chemo later this month.
— Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2024 -
Winston Churchill, for one, would have preferred to shoot the Nazi leaders and be done with it.
— Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023 -
The same can be done with collard greens to even greater benefit.
— Adrienne Cheatham, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024 -
This can be done with an equation that subtracts the person’s age from 220.
— Jason Sawyer, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024 -
If all goes well, he’ll be done with work before his 50th birthday.
— Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024 -
But if that’s not an option, it can be done with just a handful of products.
— Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024 -
Adding to the intrigue, with a large, uniquely shaped green, there is a lot that can be done with pin locations on the 17th.
— Drew Steiner, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023 -
Heather Rae El Moussa may not be done with kids after the birth of her first baby.
— Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2023 -
The same can be done with food services, say, or laundry services.
— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2024 -
Who would’ve thought that freeing up space in a suitcase could be done with the simple tug of a zipper?
— Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 17 July 2024 -
Hong’s team in South Korea has shown it can be done with a food as familiar as rice.
— Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024 -
What used to take years of training and painstaking hours of work can now be done with only a few taps of a keyboard.
— Rahul Raj, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2023 -
And naturally, that needs to be done with a special tool.
— Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2022 -
As usual, it would be done with the hope of a better tomorrow at the expense of today.
— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024 -
On Friday, Trump hinted he might not be done with the election fraud issue.
— Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2024 -
Sarah Snook may be done with the Roys, but her own family is just getting started.
— Shania Russell, EW.com, 30 May 2023 -
The last option is to be direct, which should be done with caution and assessment.
— oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2023 -
Next, the firms, the authority and the Orioles will nail down what, precisely, will be done with the ballpark.
— Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024
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